to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)
to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar); Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
fortune-telling; divination
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
incident; affair; happening; event
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama)
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
to be reminded of; to call to mind
existence; possession; having; limited company
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
Shinbashi (section of Tokyo)
I see; that's right; indeed
alternately; by turns; one after the other
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
river; stream; River; the ... river
if so; in that case; in that situation
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations